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August 11, 2008

Part II: My Pal at the Olympics — Getting Thru Security with Water

This is the latest in a series of reports on my friend — a sportswriter for a Very Important Paper — who is now in Beijing covering the Olympics. See Part I here. My pal says, the Chinese security folks seem to be taking a tip from the “olden days” when every monarch worth his crown had an official “food taster.” Here’s what I mean: at all the security check-points at the various Olympic venues, you can take a bottle of water through security, if you do one simple thing: Take a swig. Yes, you must taste it, sip it, swallow it — in the presence of security. Hmmm. Wonder how that would work going through TSA lines? I’d do it.